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Focusing On Creativity In A Digital Era

Teachers know that, to develop higher-order thinking, children need to apply creativity to tasks that focus their ideas in a logical way.

21st Century Work: Career-Readiness Isn’t What It Used To Be by Terry Heick The way we think about work is

Many projects don’t yield transferable learning because too little attention is given to the meta-cognitive and idea-building work.

7 Strategies To Support Students Who Can’t Afford Technology by TeachThought Staff For all of its potential, education technology suffers

Examples Of Disruptive Cloud-Based Learning by Charles Samuel, Senior Editor at GetVoIP I watched a video recently that made me think hard about

The Best Kind Of Summer Slide: A Summer Bucket List contributed by Corrine Jacob, alternatetutelage Our family has all but forgotten

In a world of messy problems & increasing specialization, no individual can possess all of the knowledge needed to make learning meaningful.

While we think in a linear way, learning is non-linear. Curriculum must center real-life problems & issues, vs. a linear set of competencies.